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Family memoir
Wales.
Welsh women
Product details
- ISBN 9781916821248
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jun 2025
- Publisher: Honno Welsh Women's Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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At 50, Sophie Calon's father was a celebrated lawyer. At 55, he was found dead on a garage forecourt at Christmas. Meanwhile he had pinballed between homeless shelters, prison cells, and dry-out hostels. His story is a lesson in how alcoholism corrodes a person - and a family. Long Going is a powerful, unflinching memoir that sings with Calon's love for her eccentric, witty father while recounting his drink-fuelled disintegration. In telling his story, Calon explores her family's instability and pain as well as her own survival. 'Throughout my childhood, our family's struggles couldn't be said aloud. I hope that, together with readers, we can all come to deeper understandings about addiction, grief, and how we could break destructive cycles.'
Sophie Calon is a
new young Welsh writer,
born and raised in Cardiff
during the Cool Cymru era.
Her writing was published in
the anthology Tales of Two
Londons, and has been
shortlisted for the 2021 Wild
Writing Prize and published
by Short Fiction. She lives
with her husband, daughter,
and their two cats on a hilltop
near Hay-on-Wye, where
they are bringing nature back
to their farm. Long Going is
her first book.
